’Twas such an hour as poets oft have rhymed,

And such a chamber as all lovers love.

He found her there, and at her footstool knelt.

Each in the other’s fancies had so dwelt,

That, as one sees for days a sweet strange face,

Until at night in dreams he does caress

Its owner, and next morning in some place

Meets her, and wonders if she too can guess

How near and known he thinks her,—in this wise

They read one story in each other’s eyes.